Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

  https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/07/politics/republican-response-sarah-huckabee-sanders-biden-sotu/index.html Sanders called Biden “unfit t...

  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/08/republicans-props-biden-state-of-the-union-00081774 This time, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Gree...

  https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-with-a-brain-sees-the-gop-as-the-party-of-normal?ref=home Sanders’ speech seemed to be aimed almost e...

 baal haturim (Bereishis 32 26) ויגע בכף ירכו לראות אם הוא מלאך כמותו אם היו לו קפיצים שהמלאכים אין להם קפיצים. א''נ לפוסלו מן העבוד...

 There is a question regarding interlocking ones fingers. According to the halacha it is permitted but Kabbala says not to do it. http://re...

 Avos DeRav Nosson (12:06) Even the Holy Blessed One made peace in the heights, for He did not call ten angels Gabriel, ten angels Michael, ...

  https://outorah.org/p/22794/ There is, for example, a famous argument between the schools of Hillel and Shammai as to what to say about th...

  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1049008/jewish/Telling-the-Truth-and-When-It-Is-Permissible-to-Be-Less-Than-Honest.htm One ...

  https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1497848 The head of the Chabad yeshiva in Safed, Gari Wilshansky , in a shocking conversation about the state ...

 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/jim-jordan-first-day-unfit-judiciary-committee.html Jordan is a classic demagogue. When present...

This Shabbos I was in Beis Shemesh for a grandson's bar mitzva. Got to speak with an expert on Chareidi society. What is the biggest cha...

 On Shabbos one of my granddaughters was visiting She is studying teaching social skills to autistic children. I asked what she was currentl...

I received this letter yesterday and received permission to post it. Dear Rabbi;    I came across an older posting on intermarriage, and h...

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/30/biden-trump-classified-documents-republicans/ Even before the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago a...